Ernest Nyssens practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Ernest Nyssens as Belgian physician (1868-1956).
Ernest Nyssens was born at Chimay in 1868. His recorded nationality is Belgium.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
The recorded fields of work are alternative medicine, nutrition and homeopathy.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Belgium matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Ernest Nyssens died in 1956, aged 88. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Fields: alternative medicine, nutrition and homeopathy
